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Chapter 1038: The Fall. of Falcon Scott (56)
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Atlas

Atlas 29 Sep 2025, 21:55

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Oh thank GOd Jets alive i was kinda worried

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Tounga

Tounga 15 Sep 2025, 10:20

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W chap

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Gr8Heaven

Gr8Heaven 6 Sep 2025, 21:36

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A Saint is Saint for a reason sheesh. That’s actually crazy cause he’s not even underwater. Great True Name too I’m jealous ngl

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Deme13 12 Aug 2025, 17:14

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Bloodwave and House Of Night deserves more appreciation from humans. the only great clan that's actually helping in this dire situation.

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  Deme13 12 Aug 2025, 17:15 ➥ Deme13
  
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  other great clans needs to get canceled by humans it should be a shame to join them
  
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  The Foolish Spectator
  
  The Foolish Spectator 23 Aug 2025, 05:35 ➥ Deme13
  
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  i agree w this
  
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ChaoticDestroyer

ChaoticDestroyer 9 Aug 2025, 13:18

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Bro should be super pissed about what happened underwater and went on a rampage to prove he is still the f#cking saint.

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SeQ (Magda)

SeQ (Magda) 28 Jul 2025, 04:09

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No doubt Bloodwave the MVP of this siege

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Dadadai Shukosha

Dadadai Shukosha 2 Aug 2024, 03:01

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These were good chapters, what Sunny lacked was the creativity to use the Aspect.

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  Alfametadol 3 Apr 2025, 07:20 ➥ Dadadai Shukosha
  
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  возможно, но кто из нас, особено в стрессовой ситуации, сумел бы блистать криативностью
  
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    Yahu Babu 17 Jul 2025, 12:30 ➥ Alfametadol
    
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    Bro is out there leaving legendary comments.
    
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      True name
      
      True name 3 Aug 2025, 15:50 ➥ Yahu Babu
      
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      Legendary comments that I will never be able to understand
      
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        TheForgottenOne08 8 Aug 2025, 01:55 ➥ True name
        
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        Ong, its lowkey worth putting through google translate tho
        
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give me six digits

give me six digits 6 Aug 2023, 11:50

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Damnation...

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JOEMUDA

JOEMUDA 19 Jul 2023, 08:14

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(sorry for being late its 12 am where im at) Ch. 1039

Bloodwave reached them just a moment later. The mighty Saint looked... spent. Sunny shivered when he noticed that his armor was torn, and there were ugly injuries covering his body. Out of the three Echoes, only the monstrous crab remained... the other two had either been destroyed or dismissed to save them from perishing.

'Even the Transcendent Echo is gone... gods. What could have destroyed one of those and severely injured a Saint? The Heart of Darkness... just what kind of creature was it?'

He felt a bit of dread, and a bit of curiosity. However, now was not the time to ask questions.

Their small party had to hurry and fight their way back through the boundless horde of Nightmare Creatures. Five Awakened, two Masters, one Saint... as well as two powerful Shadows and an Echo. They were an exceedingly formidable group.

Granted, all of them were wounded, tired, and low on essence. Still, cutting through the horde while keeping everyone alive would not pose a problem.

In theory.

Bloodwave studied the rest for a moment, then sent his Echo forward and growled, his voice husky, low, and domineering:

"Move!"

Saint spared the mighty Saint an indifferent glance, then mounted Nightmare and sent the dark destrier into a gallop, the spearhead of the Cruel Sight igniting with the incandescent white glow in her hand, a shield made of pure darkness weighing on the other. They moved ahead of the party, cutting into the horde as a fierce vanguard.

Soul Reaper was just behind, accompanied by the members of Sunny's cohort. Bloodwave and his Echo flanked the Awakened, protecting them from the frenzied Nightmare Creatures.

Sunny himself took up the rear position, dragging his tired body along and preventing the abominations from attacking the backs of his soldiers.

In a cacophony of chilling howls, they dove into the mass of abominations. Blood, severed flesh, and fragments of broken bone instantly filled the air.

'Damn it, damn it, damn it...'

No one in the group was weak, and some of them were truly powerful. However, the horde that Goliath had brought to the walls of Falcon Scott was simply too vast. Countless Nightmare Creatures were throwing themselves at the exhausted humans in a rabid frenzy, every moment, from every direction. Slowing down meant being buried under a mountain of monstrous bodies and torn apart.

Their only chance was to cut through the mass of abominations faster than the abominations could pile up on them.
Sunny continued to fight with his teeth gritted. The rearguard position was the most awkward, because he had to move backwards at considerable speed while slaughtering the mass of Nightmare Creatures pursuing the party. By now, they were deep inside the horde, and the abominations were surrounding them on all sides.

With how sharp and swift the Sin of Solace was, no creature could resist its blade. Sunny was managing somehow, for now, but his battered body was hurting all over. Even though the Marble Shell had yet to succumb to an attack, the few blows he failed to dodge or deflect still delivered some damage.

It was only his skin that was as hard as stone, after all, not his entire body. A sufficiently powerful strike would send a concussive shock through his insides, potentially causing internal organs to rupture. That hadn't happened yet... but being hit still hurt.

'What the hell... it just never ends, does it?'

Today, he had killed a titan and faced a creature that might have been even more wicked. Despite it all, the hard part was not over...

The fact that everything around him could blow at any moment, plunging the whole place into an inferno of immolating flame, both mundane and magical, did not make Sunny feel any better either.

Slowly, the ruined walls of the siege capital drew closer. Bloodwave's Echo was almost destroyed, causing the Saint to dismiss it - Master Jet took its place with a resigned expression, her wounds starting to bleed again. The somber glaive was nowhere to be seen, but a slender naginata appeared in Soul Reaper's hands instead. Using it, she cleared the right flank of the formation with several vicious strikes.

The pressure on Sunny was also increasing. By now, he was forced to support himself with Shadow Manifestation from time to time - his already pitiful reserve of essence was diminishing even further with each use.

sleek with blood under their feet.

After what felt like a thousand years of slaughter, the party finally reached the melted ruin of the city wall.

In front of it, the Awakened force in charge of the southern section was holding back the ocean of Nightmare Creatures... what was left of it, at least. A grim expression settled on Sunny's face when he realized that of the initial seven hundred, perhaps only two hundred remained.

Reuniting with the line of Awakened soldiers gave them a moment of respite, and gave the desperate soldiers a much-needed morale boost.

Soul Reaper, Mongrel, and Devil... all three were famous champions of the First Army, and although few soldiers knew what Saint Bloodwave looked like, the Transcendent of the House of Night had a presence that made it impossible to mistake him for an ordinary person. Seeing them return alive from the sortie, the Awakened regained some of their spirit.

No one was out of the woods yet, though.

There was a large distance separating the wall from the secondary defense perimeter that had been established deep within the city. That whole abandoned area was set up to go up in flames, as well.

Sunny looked through one of the numerous breaches in the deformed wall, noticing that the staging area on the other side of it had already been evacuated. The mundane soldiers had retreated, taking the logistics personnel, medical officers, technicians, engineers, and all other non-combatants with them.

The vast resources stored inside the staging area were all left behind. Tall crates of MWP munitions, carcasses of slain Nightmare Creatures, loader robots, and so on... a wealth of supplies, much of it highly flammable or outright explosive, was going to be blown up once the Rampart Protocol was initiated, too.

Usually, Sunny would have been pained to see all these riches go to waste, but right now, he did not care.

All he cared about was not being near when they did.

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  GeRaS-5 19 Jul 2023, 08:15 ➥ JOEMUDA
  
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  I have long wanted to tell you... You are my hero.
  
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    JOEMUDA 19 Jul 2023, 08:23 ➥ GeRaS-5
    
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    lol much appreciated
    
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  JOEMUDA 19 Jul 2023, 08:15 ➥ JOEMUDA
  
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  Ch 1040: (joemuda note: his gl charm worked out well for him)
  
  'Right... now, we just have to get to the secondary defense line. Once we're within the city instead of on a plain, evading the abominations should be much easier, so the last stretch of the way won't be as hard.'
  
  Sunny glanced at his companions, evaluating their state. Everyone was exhausted, dirty, and covered in blood - both their own and that of Nightmare Creatures - but alive.
  
  The only problem now was to somehow extricate themselves, and the two hundred surviving Awakened, from the attacking horde.
  
  At that moment, as if to answer his thoughts, Bloodwave turned to look at the mass of abominations. Then, the enigmatic Saint glanced at Master Jet.
  "Take your soldiers and go, Soul Reaper. I will hold the beasts back for a bit... tell your commanders to activate the explosives as soon as you're past the defense line."
  
  Sunny stared at him in shock, feeling that these words sounded a bit like... a farewell.
  
  "You... you..."
  
  Bloodwave gave him a strange look.
  
  "Ah... I think you might have misunderstood, Sunless. I am not trying to sacrifice myself. It's just that an explosion like that won't harm a Transcendent too much. The Awakened, however, or even someone like you... better not risk it."
  
  Sunny slowly nodded. Indeed... Corrupted Nightmare Creatures could survive a nuclear explosion without too much trouble, some Fallen as well. Rampart Protocol was not going to kill a Transcendent like Bloodwave, or even seriously inconvenience him.
  
  Master Jet nodded.
  
  "We'll be going, then."
  
  The Saint nodded, then took a deep breath and started summoning several Memories. Sunny did not know what exactly the Memories were, but judging by the fact that Bloodwave had promised to hold back the horde... the whole horde... all by himself, the abominations were in for a nasty surprise.
  
  Jet looked at him, then said quietly:
  
  "Once we start running, don't stop until you're safely behind the army fortifications. I'll stay back a little, to make sure that everyone who is still alive gets safely out of the blast zone before Army Command begins the party. Expect to enjoy fireworks as soon as we see each other again."
  
  Sunny forced out a pale smile.
  
  "...It's going to be terribly loud, isn't it? Damn. My poor ears."
  
  With that, he spared her one last glance and turned to his cohort.
  
  "Come on! Go!"
  
  Almost as soon as they dashed toward the nearest breach in the wall, Master Jet's voice boomed once again, spreading across the whole length of the battlefield.
  
  "...Retreat!"
  
  The surviving Awakened of the First Army did not make her ask twice. Delivering one last attack, they used their remaining strength to momentarily push the enemy back, then turned around and ran.
  
  To call it a retreat was a bit of a stretch. There was no order or strategy to it, just a desperate wish to survive. The defense line instantly collapsed, and the soldiers dove into the ruins of the city wall, their backs to the enemy.
  
  The only saving grace of the whole thing was Bloodwave, who somehow managed to fulfill his promise and stall the enormous horde of Nightmare Creatures all by himself, at least for a few moments.
  
  What happened outside the wall next, Sunny did not know. He thought that he heard the roar of a rushing tide of water, but at that point, there was no time to turn around.
  
  Sunny and his cohort flashed through the abandoned staging area and escaped into the empty streets beyond.
  
  Here, everything was shrouded in darkness. Many buildings had collapsed, creating a complicated labyrinth of snow and broken concrete. Others still stood, but were charred black by the flames. Some streets were strangely untouched and eerily empty, and of course, there were functioning roads that the First Army had maintained to deliver people and supplies to the wall.
  
  Sunny led his people to one of these roads. Luckily, all of them could see in the dark thanks to Kim, so the lack of illumination was not a problem. Their running speed was not much lower than that of a moving PTV, but nevertheless, he felt a pang of regret for a moment.
  
  'I'm going to lose the Rhino...'
  
  His reliable APC was currently parked in a different section of the staging area, near where they had started their shift. Sadly, the battle had taken them far away from the main gate of the city, so there was no time to search for the mighty vehicle.
  
  Once this whole place blew up, the Rhino would undoubtedly be destroyed, as well.
  
  'Damn it! Damn it!'
  
  Gritting his teeth, Sunny continued to run. He had to lead his people to safety... that took priority over everything else.
  
  Currently, they were slightly ahead of the rest of the retreating Awakened. The span of the southern section was very long, so no one else was in view. Right now, all that mattered was speed, and each soldier was making their own path to the secondary defense line. Sunny suspected that most would try to reach the maintained roads, but on this one, there was no one but the battered cohort of Irregulars.
  
  Burned and collapsed buildings flew past them one after another. They ran through the darkness, moving as fast as they could, their stamina long spent and their lungs burning. The dark, empty streets... something about them filled Sunny with a feeling of eerie unease.
  
  It took him a couple of minutes to realize why the surroundings felt so strange. It was too quiet... after more than two weeks of the siege, Sunny had grown accustomed to always hearing the wall armaments roaring somewhere in the distance.
  
  But those armaments had grown silent now, destroyed by the fiery gaze of Goliath. At least across the whole southern section of the defensive barrier, not a single turret was firing.
  
  For some reason, the silence filled him with dread.
  
  'Almost there... just a few more minutes...'
  
  Sunny spread his shadow sense outward, just to make sure that there were no dangers around. He even sent two of his shadows to scour the path ahead, to be safe, and ordered Saint and Nightmare to stay alert.
  
  But there was nothing there, just abandoned buildings and snow-covered ruins.
  
  Sunny did not see anything that could pose a threat to the cohort.
  
  His shadow did not see anything, either.
  
  Neither did Nightmare and Saint.
  
  ...The only one to notice it was Luster, who just happened to turn his head in the direction the attack came from by pure luck.
  
  His eyes widened.
  
  It was a split second later that Sunny sensed it... a swift shadow flying toward the cohort, even though there was nothing there to cast it. But it was already too late for him to react.
  
  In the next moment, Luster suddenly lunged forward and pushed Kim aside, throwing her to the ground. Something flashed through the cold air, and it was instantly filled with hot blood.
  
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    Guilty 19 Jul 2023, 09:21 ➥ JOEMUDA
    
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    Is it fingers?! He's finally becoming a shadow?!
    
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    Vernaidia 19 Jul 2023, 09:51 ➥ JOEMUDA
    
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    damn fingers lil asshole always shows up after sunny spends 120% of his reserves and its running on fumes last time he had literaly just came back from the dead now he's half a step there alr again
    
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    gondzio9 19 Jul 2023, 10:26 ➥ JOEMUDA
    
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    He must have inherited Sunny's cunning and pettiness as the most important attributes from devouring his flesh xd.
    
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Chapter 1038: The Fall. of Falcon Scott (56)
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